Tales from The Room of Doom. Dipping a toe in various bucolic backwaters.

[NHY 581]

Excellent stuff Rob, I enjoyed seeing it at Railwells and the chat with you and the spammers bloke!

Hi Phil,

Yes, good to see you and thankfully, it ran well despite Pencarrot getting the J70s confused with garden sheds. Once you accept the limitations that a layout like Ewe has, it's quite relaxing to operate.

In other news, the op on my hoof was done yesterday. It will be a little while before I can resume modelling activities and things are a tad uncomfortable at present as it's rather mummified. But, and it is early days, there does appear to be a reduction in the pins and needles in my arm/hand. I'll know more in a few days but there is what seems to be a definate improvement in the amount of feeling in my hand and fingers.

Rob.

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Rob,

best of luck with the recovery.

regards

Mike

 

[Pencarrow]

Hi Phil,

Yes, good to see you and thankfully, it ran well despite Pencarrot getting the J70s confused with garden sheds. Once you accept the limitations that a layout like Ewe has, it's quite relaxing to operate.

In other news, the op on my hoof was done yesterday. It will be a little while before I can resume modelling activities and things are a tad uncomfortable at present as it's rather mummified. But, and it is early days, there does appear to be a reduction in the pins and needles in my arm/hand. I'll know more in a few days but there is what seems to be a definate improvement in the amount of feeling in my hand and fingers.

Rob.

Saying nothing...

Cats


Sheds

 

[NHY 581]

George and Mittie are not normally so naughty. Bad influence, obviously.

 

[Pencarrow]

Bad influence


Results

 

[Phil O]

Do they have a naughty step on this forum?

 

[Phil O]

Rob,

Sounds like the op has been successful, hopefully the recuperation period will not be to long and you can get back to modelling fitness soon.

 

[simond]

Do they have a naughty step on this forum?

Funnily enough, they do, and it’s a certain gentleman’s pannier (which is currently undergoing restorative therapy in SE Kent) which usually occupies it.

 

[Pencarrow]

Funnily enough, they do, and it’s a certain gentleman’s pannier (which is currently undergoing restorative therapy in SE Kent) which usually occupies it.

"Restorative therapy"... I like that. So much can be inferred.

 

[Dog Star]

Do they have a naughty step on this forum?

Funnily enough, they do, and it’s a certain gentleman’s pannier which usually occupies it.

I trust that you have left room for Jordan (@Jordan), I am sure that he shall let us know the size of the step.

 

[simond]

it is only a small (if very recalcitrant) pannier... I'm sure there's room.

 

[Jordan]

"Naughty step" - somebody called?

It's actually out on the fire escape, out behind the Back of The Class, so there's plenty of them, some are more rusty than others.
There's talk of trying another punishment, the Tray of Kneeling Gravel. to be located at the Front of The Class so that reprobates can be educated in the ways of the Serious Squad at the same time as receiving Correction for the error of their Box-opening ways.
The wearing of short trousers will be obligatory.

 

[Purple-haze]

Jordan, you make it sound very appealing

regards Rog

 

[michael mott]

Thanks for the retrospective of the construction of EWE Rob a wonderful bit of layout modeling.
Michael

 

[NHY 581]

Morning all,

Nice to see the thread trundling on. Railwells was a damn fine weekend away, made all the more interesting by trying to keep NotenoughPanniers out of trouble......but we were the last to leave The Crown on both nights........so maybe it wasn't entirely his fault......

Thanks for the retrospective of the construction of EWE Rob a wonderful bit of layout modeling.
Michael

Thanks Michael. That's very kind of you. I think I covered the salient points in development as things progressed. I hope that this may encourage others to have a go at a layout by demonstrating that a usable layout, albeit a simple one, can be knocked together in relatively quick time..

What I found interesting, looking at the dates of the images, was that between August '21 and the end of November, there was a fair amount of progress. I retired from the day job at the end of November and things stopped for a bit, until January '22. I really kicked back........then I remembered Ewe was being exhibited at the end of April and I got a bit of a wiggle on, hence lots of images in March and April.

I am of course looking forward to getting stuck into the next layout which I will, once the hand is a bit more usable. Given the current rate of progress, I'm hoping that will be this time next week.

Rob

 

[NHY 581]

Afternoon all,

First bit of post op model railway related activity completed today. Tinkered with a SE&CR P class, body removed, DCC decoder popped in and reassembled. Tested on EWE. Nice runner and certainly looks the part with a couple of 4 wheel coaches.

Must, say, still seems rather bright after years of 1950s BR modelling !

Rob.

 

[NHY 581]

A photo from today's 'physiotherapy '.

 

[NHY 581]

On the subject of the P class, 178 and the other Hattons example, 753, will both require their buffers changing. As supplied they have the later Southern pattern parallel shank buffers as preserved. Hattons thoughtfully provide original tapered, SE&CR, pattern buffers with each.

Given the complexities of the livery etc, I'll wait until my hoof is definitely working before tackling the swap.

Rob.

 

[Pencarrow]

I'll have a P please Bob...

 

[Herb Garden]

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On the subject of the P class, 178 and the other Hattons example, 753, will both require their buffers changing. As supplied they have the later Southern pattern parallel shank buffers as preserved. Hattons thoughtfully provide original tapered, SE&CR, pattern buffers with each.

Given the complexities of the livery etc, I'll wait until my hoof is definitely working before tackling the swap.

Rob.

They do look good and the livery is very well applied. The one thing that never seems to work on RTR models is all the brass bits... They either are way too shiny or too dull. Do you have any plans to do anything with these bits on this loco?